This is kind of pointless given that iOS’s autocorrect has been adding em dashes, ellipsis and smart quotes to comments since… forever.

(Like now)

It’s become a weird kind of witch hunting regarding blogs, too, and I have a 20+ year old site that renders all of its content using Markdown extensions that do the same (and that also convert dual hyphens to em dashes—something I’ve been typing for about as long).

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ikari_pl 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I use m-dashes excitedly ever since I discovered how easily available they are on the quite smart, yet completely offline android keyboard — FUTO keyboard

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chubot 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah exactly, I use em dashes, and somewhat expected to be on the leaderboard :-) But I type them as two hyphens --

On my desktop, the two hyphens remain literal. But on iOS, it turns into an em dash I think. Although it seems like I get the smart quotes more often than the em dash

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		Something like 16 years ago I added a custom filter to my WordPress functions.php to convert "--" to a proper emdash in the output. If I had a nickle for every emdash in my back catalog I could finally buy that detached backyard office I've always wanted.

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weikju 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This site seems to be about identifying users who used emdash BEFORE ChatGPT was released, therefore identifying who is likely not ChatGPT despite using emdashes

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pas 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

but it required two hyphens, right? it's not like any bla-blah got autocorrected into Blah--Blah, right?